I am much more of a cat person than a dog person. So, when we brought our cute little kitten home, we all loved him especially my one daughter. Well, then the honeymoon ended and he started peeing everywhere. He had been with us for about a year at that time. We tried everything and nothing worked. The crazy thing was that he hardly used the litter box but always asked to go outside to go to the bathroom. MY DH finally got fed up with it and we sent the cat to live with his mother. She is also a cat lover and didn't want to get rid of him after he started peeing at her house (this I attributed to their being cats/cat pee in the house). We found the cat a new home and hopefully he's not peeing there. Our DD (who is now almost 7) and it's been over a year and a half since we got rid of the cat, still misses him and wants another cat. I've toldh er that if I could guarantee that the cat wouldn't start peeing in closets, I'd get one, but since we can't do that, I've told her no is the answer for now. It kills me to see how bummed out she is over the departure of her cat, but I also know I can't risk going through that again. From the posts here, it looks like cats more often don't pee than do...that's at least a little encouraging.

Joseph, I think you are preaching to the choir on a forum like this, so chill and give posters credit for knowing what they are dealing with. This is a 750SF house, built to house base support during the interwar period. It is as basic as basic gets, but hardwood flooring was par for the course in that era, even though a luxury to us. There is just no way to cosmetically salvage the floor. It has served faithfully for ninety years, but is just worn out. I appreciate everyone's advice on the shoe mold. I'm clearly overthinking it, but I was just so down in the dumps because of all that haaaaard work scrubbing and laying poly gone to waste. I was so proud of the job I had done. But we knew it was a gamble when we did it, because of the condition of the floor. We have found an unbelievable clearance deal on Trafficmaster laminate at the local big box, so we can at least keep the look of what was there.

Tell him you are not happy and you want it repaired or replaced to your satisfaction.

We had new tile put into the kitchen, and wood floors all throughout the downstairs. I specifically had the contract written that I wanted no transition strips, and no quarter round/shoe molding, and I wanted their installers to be very capable of executing that. I have a wood cabinet kitchen island very similar to your picture. They tiled right up to it, much like your picture. Now that I have seen how much cleaner the kitchen and the baseboards look, I could probably never go back to looking at that shoe molding.